OpenClassrooms Is Going To Double In Size With $60 Million Funding

Europe’s leading online education platform OpenClassrooms is getting a funding of $60 million from General Atlantic, along with the participation of other existing investors Alven, Bpifrance and Citizen Capital.

OpenClassrooms is the huge open online course platform in France having over 2 million members and fully online degrees. OpenClassroom provides a degree certified by the French state, to its students. This online education platform is acquiring a massive popularity with 3 million users every month.

The education website design of OpenClassroom is very user friendly and it allows you to study several courses like web and mobile app development, data management, marketing and so on.

Apart from offering an education platform the OpenClassrooms also guarantees to get a job after completing the course. The assurance is, if students fail to get a job within six months, OpenClassrooms will pay them back for the degree.

Recently, OpenClassrooms has taken a step to work with companies directly in order to help students find the job immediately after getting their degree. Capgemini is one of such companies that OpenClassrooms collaborating with.

With this program, OpenClassrooms has established a highly profitable business model for itself and now, the startup has signed agreements with Google.org and Orange.

Speaking on this funding program, the co-founder and CEO Pierre Dubuc said, “Within a year, OpenClassrooms will offer a hundred digital degrees, with a third of them in English.”

The degrees will be based on courses focusing on digital skills, like computer science, data science, and cybersecurity along with some non-technical courses like management, HR, accounting, communication, and marketing.

Seeing the big achievements of OpenClassrooms, the startup seems to become one of the leading universities around the globe.

Conclusion

Education and technology advancements like internet when merged together can yield a super successful business model and OpenClassrooms is the evidence of it. With this new funding amount, the startup is all set to expand with some new services and plans. Do you think building an online education platform like OpenClassrooms or an educational mobile app could be great startup ides for you? If yes, then Get in Touch with us to implement it in reality, for you.

Author: Mahil Jasani

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